Just Say No To a Big WordPress Ping List

Just wanted to thank you for this post. I was wondering if I had all the right ping services in my blog.

One issue I am having is that when I had my blog hosted on wordpress sites would automatically show a trackback if I mentioned them. Now, even though I still use the wordpress platform, I am not getting trackbacks on sites like HotAir. I am not sure what happened.

Anyway. thanks for this post

Great post. We have our own custom CMS, and I’ve been told by my SEO consultant that I need something that pings sites when a user posts a blog, news item, and even a page. Do you know if they all use XML-RPC with the method weblogUpdates.extendedPing and the same parameters?

Thanks for the list. It will be very helpful for me.

I’m curious, if pingomatic pings the ping server for Google Blog Search, then doesn’t that mean that the server is being pinged twice when a post is made? Could that not be a potentially risky, given how easy it is to be labelled a spammer?

Having said that, I may have stepped outside by area of expertise so I would appreciate any comments on the matter.

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Thanks for your post. I have made changes and I am using just the three ping services above. I am delighted by your fresh insight into this excessive pinging thing. Your post brought me great comfort in that area. Again, thanks and keep up the great job.

Thanks Kathy for sharing this wonderful piece of info.

After setting up my WordPress blog I always seek for a big ping list. But never ever thought that it may be problematic my blog ranking.

You’re are extremely right. Many ping website are poor and Spam and google takes them negatively. This will effect even our website if we add them in our list. 🙂

I like the post and has a lot of logic in it. I’ve only had one time Pingomatic and it was ok .Thank you.

OK, just after adding 300+ services to ping, I read your post and decided to cut it down to only 3!

I’ll be very interested to see if it makes a difference.

Best,

Alex

Personally my pages and site seem to rank better by pinging the 50 or so links I have set to be pinged than the 3 you use. I think often it all depends on the situation.

I love this lists! Thank you

Thanks for the ping list. I watched other sites are suggesting 100’s of ping services, but i think you’re right it will penalize the rankings.
Regards

An Interesting view on pinging. I like many others had been advised to avoid WP from pinging when making adjustments to a post or page as this could lead to being de-indexed by the google search engines. Also I too started out bu using a large ping list and have reduced it to only a few.

Thank you very much for the ping list. I added it it to my WP just now.

I am wondering do you know what is the latest status of the Update Services? I know that the posts were being pinged even when they were edited. Is it still the case.

This list was useful to me

Thank you so much for the list.

Kathy, thank you for this well thought out and clearly delivered post. I have become a serial blogger 🙂 and love it!

But there is so much techie stuff that I don’t know and frankly don’t care to know.
However, I do realize that what you don’t know can hurt you.

I appreciate that you took the time to save me from myself.
Especially about being mindful of my post correction frequency and the
possibility of being penalized.

Yvonne Finn

I found this post when looking for an updated pinging list and I’m glad I did. No more long lists. The 3 you’ve provided will do nicely TYVM…

Great resource and article!

thank you for the share

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Thanks for the valuable post and suggestion . My blog ping list was too big . I had listed almost every ping site to my blog . Now going to remove them and use use only the best of them .

Do you still use just the 3? Any update, or the same 3?

Also, I do you use the optimizer,
and the log seems to be catching my frequent edits.

Thank you so much for the list.

Is your recommended list still the same? I’ll use your short one unless you have updated it.

Thanks in advance.

Mark

Hi Kathy,

What a surprise thihihi – I was like you using a long pinglist and updated this every year.
Your new LIST is super – I totally agree. Thanks for sharing and updating it!
I’ll use it wisely – and do send updates should a #3 get added … Thihihi

Peter

Nice post

nice post